Volume 87 – No. 1

Articles

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  The Aquino Administration’s Balancing Policy against an Emergent China: Its Domestic and External Dimensions

  Renato Cruz De Castro

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  Introduction: East Asian Cultural Industries: Policies, Strategies, and Trajectories

  Dal Yong Jin and Nissim Otmazgin

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  Anime in the US: The Entrepreneurial Dimensions of Globalized Culture

  Nissim Otmazgin

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  The Power of the Nation-state amid Neoliberal Reform: Shifting Cultural Politics in the New Korean Wave

  Dal Yong Jin

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  Cultural Policy and Film Industry as Negotiation of Power: The Chinese State’s Role and Strategies in its Engagement with Global Hollywood 1994-2012

  Wendy Su

Perspectives

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  Engaging North Korea with High-culture Soft Power: Knowledge Sharing with Pyongyang

  Kyung-Ae Park and Mark Bennett

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• DOWN: Indie Rock in the PRC | Written, produced and directed by Andrew Field and Jud Willmont

  Marc L. Moskowitz

• MONGOLIAN BLING | Written and directed by Benj Binks

  Simon Wickhamsmith

• MIGRATION AND DIVERSITY IN ASIAN CONTEXTS | Edited by Lai Ah Eng, Francis L. Collins and Brenda S.A. Yeoh

  Apichai W. Shipper

• WIND OVER WATER: Migration in an East Asian Context | Edited by David W. Haines, Keiko Yamanaka, Shinji Yamashita

  Yixuan Wang

• THE CHINA-INDIA NUCLEAR CROSSROADS | Edited & Translated by Lora Saalman

  Robert S. Anderson

• CREATIVITY AND ACADEMIC ACTIVISM: Instituting Cultural Studies | Edited by Meaghan Morris and Mette Hjort

  Rob Wilson

• ASIAN RELIGIONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA | Edited by Larry De Vries, Don Baker, and Dan Overmyer

  Kelly H. Chong

• CHINA IN AND BEYOND THE HEADLINES | Edited by Timothy B. Weston and Lionel M. Jensen

  Yang Lijun

• LIU XIAOBO, CHARTER 08, AND THE CHALLENGES OF POLITICAL REFORM IN CHINA | Edited by Jean-Philippe Béja, Fu Hualing and Eva Pils

  Philip F. Williams

• MAKING CAPITALISM IN RURAL CHINA | By Michael Webber

  Wei Xu

• DOUBLE PARADOX: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China | By Andrew Wedeman

  Aiqun Hu

• COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NATION: Ethnic Classification in Modern China | By Thomas S. Mullaney; with a foreword by Benedict Anderson

  Sara A. Newland

• HEAVEN CRACKS, EARTH SHAKES: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao’s China | By James Palmer

  Wooyeal Paik

• PORTRAITS OF 2IST CENTURY CHINESE UNIVERSITIES: In the Move to Mass Higher Education | By Ruth Hayhoe et al

  Kathryn Mohrman

• REPOSITIONING THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT: Social Foundations and Political Challenges | Edited by Stephen Wing-kai Chiu and Siu-lun Wong

  Eilo Wing-yat Yu

• BEYOND SHANGRI-LA: America and Tibet’s Move into the Twenty-First Century | By John Kenneth Knaus

  Tsering Shakya

• LIJIANG STORIES: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China | By Emily Chao

  Susan K. McCarthy

• NO ENEMIES, NO HATRED: Selected Essays and Poems | By Liu Xiaobo; edited by Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia

  Timothy Weston

• DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND INEQUALITY IN JAPAN | Edited by Sawako Shirahase

  Scott North

• INEQUALITY, DISCRIMINATION AND CONFLICT IN JAPAN: Ways to Social Justice and Cooperation | Edited by Ken-ichi Ohbuchi and Nobuko Asai

  Robin O’Day

• WELFARE THROUGH WORK: Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics, and Social Protection in Japan | By Mari Miura

  Jiyeoun Song

• THE ART OF CENSORSHIP IN POSTWAR JAPAN | By Kirsten Cather

  Rowena Ward

• RUSSO-JAPANESE RELATIONS, 1905-1917: From Enemies to Allies | By Peter Berton

  Eduard Baryshev

• CELEBRITY GODS: New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan | By Benjamin Dorman

  Bill Mihalopoulos

• THE IMPOSSIBLE STATE: North Korea, Past and Future | By Victor Cha

  Rudiger Frank

• CUISINE, COLONIALISM AND COLD WAR: Food in Twentieth-Century Korea | By Katarzyna J. Cwiertka

  Robert Oppenheim

• LIBERALIZATION, HINDU NATIONALISM AND THE STATE: A Biography of Gujarat | By Nikita Sud

  Andrew Wyatt

• INDIA’S LATE, LATE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: Democratizing Entrepreneurship | By Sumit K. Majumdar

  Rahul Mukherji

• ECONOMIC LIBERALISATION AND INDIAN AGRICULTURE: A District-Level Study | By G.S. Bhalla, Gurmail Singh

  Ashok Kotwal

• NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICT IN NEPAL: Identities and Mobilization after 1990 | Edited by Mahendra Lawoti and Susan Hangen

  David N. Gellner

• THE MAKING OF SOUTHEAST ASIA: International Relations of a Region | By Amitav Acharya

  Paul Evans

• UNPLANNED DEVELOPMENT: Tracking Change in South-East Asia | By Jonathan Rigg

  Abidin Kusno

• COSTS AND BENEFITS OF CROSS-COUNTRY LABOUR MIGRATION IN THE GMS | Edited by Hossein Jalilian

  Robert Curry

• DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Recent Histories and Future Directions | Edited by Lindy Williams and Michael Philip Guest

  Michael Leaf

• BEYOND THE SACRED FOREST: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia | Edited by Michael R. Dove, Percy E. Sajise, and Amity A. Doolittle

  Wolfram Dressler

• AGENT ORANGE: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty | By Edwin A. Martini

  Charles R. Bailey

• SITUATING FILIPINO CIVILISATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Reflections and Observations | By Niels Mulder

  Patricio N. Abinales

• TRANSPACIFIC FEMININITIES: The Making of the Modern Filipina | By Denise Cruz

  Geraldine Pratt

• THE AUTHORITY OF INFLUENCE: Women and Power in Burmese History | By Jessica Harriden

  Trude Jacobsen

• LAW’S ANTHROPOLOGY: From Ethnography to Expert Testimony in Native Title | By Paul Burke

  Bruce Granville Miller

• FROM MODERN PRODUCTION TO IMAGINED PRIMITIVE: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea | By Paige West

  Bryant Allen

• POLYNESIANS IN AMERICA: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World | Edited by Terry L. Jones et al

  Chris Ballard

• CHRISTIAN POLITICS IN OCEANIA | Edited by Matt Tomlinson and Debra McDougall

  Terry M. Brown

• ANCESTRY OF EXPERIENCE: A Journey Into Hawaiian Ways of Knowing | By Leilani Holmes

  Rachana Agarwal

• THE NON-INDEPENDENT TERRITORIES OF THE CARIBBEAN AND PACIFIC: Continuity or Change? | Edited by Peter Clegg and David Killingray

  Laurel A. Monnig